Fandom Snowflake Challenge #7
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Wishlist!
I had to go look at other people's wishlists to see what kind of thing people were asking for, because I've not done one of these casual fandom wishlists before. Only exchanges, lol, which are very different. So!
- Music recommendations, and a reason why you're recommending it. And what I mean is...
- Your favorite song!
- The new song you just heard on the radio that you had to go look up immediately.
- A song that makes you think of a particular character, and who that character is.
- A song that would TOTALLY be the theme song of your life.
- The 14th random song in your library.
- A song in a genre you literally never listen to, except for this one.
- The song that flings you back to middle school/hs/a different period of your life.
- Any other song that you think would be awesome for me to know about...
- Basically, The Algorithm can only introduce me to so much new music at a time, and Boil The Frog is finicky. I love hearing about why a song is significant, too. That's the best part (beyond introducing me to new music.)
Wish Granted!
Date: 2025-01-19 08:44 am (UTC)River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.
Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.
This was a terrible plan.
A Terrible Fall of Angels (A Zaniel Havelock Novel) Hardcover – Big Book, August 17, 2021 by Laurell K. Hamilton
Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A former trained Angel speaker, he devoted his life to serving both the celestial beings and his fellow humans with his gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he’s a cop who is still working on the side of angels. But where there are angels, there are also demons.
Crowbones
(World of the Others, The) Hardcover – March 8, 2022
by Anne Bishop (Author)
Deep in the territory controlled by the Others—shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings—Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The Jumble, a rustic resort. When she decides to host a gathering of friends and guests for Trickster Night, at first everything is going well between the humans and the Others.
>>TIME TRAVEL RECS!!! What books or movies or TV shows have you watched that feature Time Travel that you would rec? I've...watched a bunch of stuff, but I'm always hunting more.<<
One of the most memorable nonsequential novels I've ever read is Imzadi.
If you love time travel, I highly recommend the card game Chrononauts. The cards create a timeline and you play a time traveler. There are multiple ways to win and one for everyone to lose, so try not to blow up the universe.
I also enjoy writing time travel.
"Uptime Girl" is about a television show called "Stitchin' Time."
The Bear Tunnels is essentially a fixit for America's messed-up history.
Tripping into the Future uses time travel as a weapon.
The Time Towers posits time travel as a game of Jenga.
Re: Wish Granted!
Date: 2025-01-19 09:23 pm (UTC)I'd vaguely heard of River of Teeth, but I hadn't heard of either of the other books until you mentioned them. Which is wild because I've read almost everything Anne Bishop wrote before about 2019. I shall put them on my to-read list. :D
Also, these links to your writing/other's fanworks/new original media that I've not heard of before are all fantastic. Every one of them is so interestingly unique, even being wrapped around the same central concept. o_O I'm fascinated by the Bear Tunnels' time-refugees. Gosh, these are all very cool!
Thank you so much. I'm going to be enjoying your recs for quite some time. :) :)
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Date: 2025-01-20 02:33 am (UTC)*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service.
>> I'd vaguely heard of River of Teeth, <<
It was the description that sold me on it -- here's a terrible idea that is obviously terrible that these people did, followed by the obviously bad consequences.
>> but I hadn't heard of either of the other books until you mentioned them. Which is wild because I've read almost everything Anne Bishop wrote before about 2019. I shall put them on my to-read list. :D <<
I like a lot of Anne Bishop's work, although the later Black Jewels stuff isn't near as good as the earlier. Most of the Others novels have been excellent.
>> Also, these links to your writing/other's fanworks/new original media that I've not heard of before are all fantastic. Every one of them is so interestingly unique, even being wrapped around the same central concept. o_O
Well, the stuff in the bookstories is very samey this point. I also like looking on Kickstarter. I'm still waiting on my copy of the Dalit science fiction anthology.
>> I'm fascinated by the Bear Tunnels' time-refugees.
Gosh, these are all very cool!
Thank you so much. I'm going to be enjoying your recs for quite some time. :) :)
I love turning people on to fun new things. If you decide that you like my writing, you can ask for more in any relevant prompt call. Next up will be February 4 with a theme of "I believe in dragons, good men, and other fantasy creatures."
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Date: 2025-01-23 03:12 am (UTC)True, true. I know the USian publishers/distributors play it weirdly safe in their hunt for bestsellers, imho. My one friend reads ARCs and she's always telling me about these weird microgenres that she keeps running across, where there will be four or five books of an Incredibly Specific premise all coming out within an year or two of each other. I'm intrigued by hunting Kickstarter, though. I clean forgot that people published books/anthologies through it, even though I have absolutely backed a couple.
I will keep an eye out for your prompt calls! That's such an intriguing February theme. :)
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Date: 2025-01-19 08:07 pm (UTC)A song I've been listening to a lot lately is Jonathan Roy's "Keeping Me Alive." It's about breaking chains that tie us down. The song can be interpreted in many ways. I tend to see it as a Good Omens Crowley song, as him breaking his chains to hell. All of Roy's songs are great; I love the emotion he pours into his singing. The link is to the video, but he's also on Spotify.
For time-travel shows, Quantum Leap is great. I haven't watched the reboot, so I'm speaking of the old show from 1989. Sam travels in time to help people who are in need, becoming the person he 'leaps into' in the eyes of all around him, and trying to figure out what he needs to do to help. It's a feel-good show.
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Date: 2025-01-19 08:57 pm (UTC)I'm intrigued by the song, nice. I can definitely see it as a Crowley song, ooo. Lots of really good lyrics for him, especially. This has a lovely depth of feeling. Awesome!
You know, I'd *heard* of Quantum Leap, but I didn't realize it would be right up my alley. I do love that kind of scifi + feel-good/adventure. I've been gradually stepping backward in time by following the chain of related fandoms, and I have seen it pop up, but hadn't poked it yet.
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Date: 2025-01-19 09:13 pm (UTC)I probably should have mentioned that QL is free on the Roku Channel. No need to have a Roku device can be accessed through the website. The reboot is also there.
Quantum Leap on the Roku Channel
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Date: 2025-01-19 09:30 pm (UTC)Oooh. Neat, yes. I do have a Roku box. Oh, but my 20yo TV literally just gave up the ghost. Hrm. Ahha, I will be investigating via the website, then! Thank you for the link. :)
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Date: 2025-01-19 10:15 pm (UTC)For sci-fi books, the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky was recommended to me by a friend, and it looks absolutely fascinating. For something I’ve read proper, the The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen is one of my all-time favorite series. I can’t recommend the last book, as it was written 20 years later, but books 1-3 are brilliant. :)
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Date: 2025-01-23 03:00 am (UTC)Children of Time sounds...very familiar. It's...oh! The Elevated spiders book! Yes! I think I can borrow that one from the boyo. And gosh, The Pit Dragon Chronicles is a blast from the past. I remember reading those way, way back in the day. I don't think it occurred to me that I could read them again, now that I'm older. I've reread some other books that made major impacts on me growing up, but all I remember is that this one did, and not why. Thank you so much for the rec for it. I'm absolutely going to have to go track that series down.
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Date: 2025-01-23 09:19 pm (UTC)Awesome! The Pit Dragon Chronicles is one of my favorite series of all time, I really aughta re-read it again as well. It’s so… charming? Unique? Although I’ll personally be skipping book 4, if I do get around to re-reading it. XD
Glad my recs were appealing!
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Date: 2025-01-22 12:55 am (UTC)For time travel, there's always This is How You Lose the Time War. There's a pretty wild podcast (if you can handle how the protagonist is a petty shit in the beginning) called Woe.Begone; spoilers in that it eventually deals with time travel by about the 10th or 20th episode. (Content warning: there's gore, death, and other awful things that people do with the mechanics of time travel!)
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Date: 2025-01-23 02:50 am (UTC)This is How You Lose The Time War is...next? I think I want to read that next, actually. That sounds fantastic. It doesn't seem to be very long, comparatively?
And hrrrmmm...I'm not sure if I'm up for shitty protag. XD Unless there's a redemption arc? I do love a good redemption arc. I'm intrigued, though, that it's exploring the dark side of time travel.
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Date: 2025-01-28 09:49 pm (UTC)Time Travel Recs: I'm currently watching Bodies on Netflix and while I'm very confused, I'm also fascinated, it's a murder mystery, but the body turns up in four different times at once - Victorian England, WWII, 2023, and 2050s. There is a great audio drama by Big Finish, it should be on spotify, called Bernice Summerfield, that's set more or less in the Doctor Who universe, that also has time travel, but it's not the main focus.
Small Fandom Recs: I don't know if you know Hornblower (great books, great show) but the fandom has some pretty great fic writers. I can recommend basically everything by Sanguinity, including the Sherlock Holmes fics. But I'd especially recommend Hornblower's Lost Honour
I hope you like some of the above!
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Date: 2025-01-31 11:19 pm (UTC)Oh! I've heard of Bernice! I had totally forgotten about Big Finish. I will definitely have to check it out, since I went through a major Doctor Who phase and really loved all the companions and auxiliary characters.
I'm actually...not that familiar with Hornblower, actually. Ooh. I'll have to go check it out!
Ty ty for the recs. :)
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Date: 2025-02-01 11:23 am (UTC)I finished Bodies and I really liked the end! I hope you enjoy it too.
If you are interested in Hornblower: Here is the Wikipedia article with all the books and adaptations listed if you are interested. Here you can find a playlist of the mini series on youtube. And here are the books on the internet archive. There is actually one very good, but abandoned time travel fic/crossover fic with Forever for Hornblower. There is also a tiny connection to Doctor Who in the mini series, if you watch it, maybe you can figure it out.
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Date: 2025-02-01 08:03 pm (UTC)I'm always a little sad about awesome-but-abandoned WIPs. Because they're still awesome to read, even if they never have a resolution. I'll take a peek. :)
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Date: 2025-02-01 08:32 pm (UTC)Oh I imagine that would be hard, reading it without any context at all. But I'm glad you like it. The show can help a lot with catching up with the canon and it isn't terribly long, but there are a few characters that never appear in the show, only in the books, in this fic. You should be able to figure them out through context though.
I'm glad you think it's interesting even though it was a little confusing.
The crossover fic might be even more confusing if you know neither Hornblower nor Forever. If you have questions just message me.
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Date: 2025-02-08 11:57 pm (UTC)My favorite song at the moment is "Unintentional Big Dream" by Liu Yuning, from the cdrama Fangs of Fortune soundtrack. Liu Yuning does a lot of music for various cdramas (and has even acted in some of them), and this track is quite different from his usual style and sound he does for the majority of them.
My fourteenth random song: "Watch Me" by Joanna Pacitti
A song that takes me back to middle school: "Just Go" by Staind
A song I think you should know about: "Howling" by XG. I've fallen in love with XG since I discovered them last year, and this was among their most recent releases and it's so good. XG is an all-Japanese global girl group that sings entirely in English (and does promotions in South Korea, while also traveling globally for tours), their concept is of an alien wolf pack and their sound is very much a mixture of rnb/rap/hip-hop/pop that is reminiscent of 90s/early 00s music scene (example: "Left Right").
For scifi book recs, I absolutely love Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles. It's dense, weird, and continues to get weirder with each installment of his six book series. The Southern Reach trilogy (well, now series since there is a fourth book out) by Jeff VanderMeer is such a wonderfully crafted story. And while I haven't dived into the books just yet, The Expanse books by James S.A. Corey is something I tend to recommend simply because I know it's going to be good based from the television show, which the authors also had a hand in helping create.
For fiction featuring time travel, there is a lot that seems to qualify for me in some ways, particularly that of cdramas/cnovels/Asian media in general (it's quite a common trope, whether it's time travel or transmigration of sorts). Guardian is one that I found to be quite well-done, while in the novel it is quite different the drama had to change things due to censorship reasons, however they managed to do it very well, imho. The time travel, or time loop, aspect just fits so perfectly and adds so much emotional layers, on top of everything else.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is one that I go back to a lot when it comes to time travel, because obviously it is of the Terminator franchise so it's a given, but the way it is done in the show is magnificent. They utilized the concept of different timelines, of both going back and going forward in time, for different reasons.